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The Quiet

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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025

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O Cadoiro

A boy with light skin tone wears a jacket, boots, and mitts. He stands on top of a small, brown peak that is in front of two other peaks. Behind him the sky is patches of blue and orange. The letter “o” in the title is a snowflake. Text: Snow. Joan Clark. Pictures by Kady MacDonald Denton.

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Snow

Cover: Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor. Over a bright yellow background, the cover features an illustrated pair of hands making casting a shadow puppet in the shape of a dog.

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Shadow Price

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Like This

Cover: Wellwater, poems by Karen Solie. Over an off-white background, the cover featured an illustration of a flowering lilac tree with a thin stem and visible roots.

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Wellwater

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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026

Cover: Boobies by Nancy Vo. A Blue-footed Booby stands with its wings folded behind its back. It has a white body with black wings and a black face. Its legs and webbed feet are blue. The bird wears a green and orange hat with a wide brim. The title “Boobies” is written across the bird so that the two o’s are placed on its chest where breasts would be.

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Boobies

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Great Expectations

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Silken Gazelles

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The 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

A photograph shows a close-up of a woman’s face. We see the bottom right corner of her face showing the side of her mouth, her cheek, and a part of her nose. She has light skin tone and short, curly, dark hair. She wears a pink lip colour and blush. Around her neck is a short, yellow pearl necklace and she is wearing a fine-knit, teal sweater. Text: Marie-Renée Lavoie. Autopsy of a Boring Wife. “True to life and wildly entertaining.” – Huffington Post.

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Autopsy of a Boring Wife

Go, stories by Deborah Ellis. The background is pale green. Clockwise from the top are six illustrations: A purple basket of various home items, two floor cushions around a wood Go game board covered in black and white pieces; an upside-down dog bowl surrounded by dog kibble and broken glass; an orange shirt, white towel, bar of soap and a toothbrush; a shovel in front of a gravestone; a white chair and a pink purse by a potted tree; and a pair of shoes, red cup and a race bib with the number forty-four.

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Go

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Grammar to Go

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The New Measures

Cover: Passengers by Michael Crummey. The words "passengers" and "poems," as well as the author's name, are stylized to form the shape of Newfoundland. The text is in black and red.

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Passengers

Cover: Great Silent Ballad: poems by A. F. Moritz. A Renaissance-style painting primarily features two figures, one playing a violin and the other playing a lute. The face of a third figure looks down and to the right at the bottom-left of the page, and the body of a fourth appears on the upper right section.

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Great Silent Ballad

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The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

Cover: House of Anansi presents Xanax Cowboy, poems, written and directed by Hannah Green. The cover is yellow, monochrome. The title text is large and black, and the font appears as though stamped with ink.

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Xanax Cowboy

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Scientific Marvel

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The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out

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Kapusta

José Speaks Out, speech by José Mujica, commentary by Dolors Camats, translation by Sofía Jarrín and illustrations by Guridi. The silhouette of an old man, visible from the shoulders up, is depicted in black ink against a splash of yellow. The man has short hair and a mustache, and wears a checked collared shirt under a jacket.

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José Speaks Out

A drawing of a bird is in white against a green background. The bird has slender wings and stands in short grass. Text: The Caiplie Caves. Karen Solie.

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The Caiplie Caves

Cover: We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard. The words of the title and author's name are composed of small pink and yellow dots against a turquoise background. The dots are sparse at the top of the page and become more dense moving down the cover, giving the impression of something coming into focus. "A Novel" appears in small white type.

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We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine

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The Sisters Brothers

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Life Is About Losing Everything

Cover: My Street Remembers. Written by Karen Krossing and illustrated by Cathie Jamieson. Paintings were inspired by illustrator’s Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee background, showing organic shapes in thick outlines. A turtle crawls along the sand, leaving footprints behind. The sky is blue. Grass grows above, and under it there is dark earth with a long, curving black line bisected by shorter vertical lines. Pictured on the left side of the page is half of a medicine wheel ringed with a braided grass ring.

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My Street Remembers

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Museum of Bone and Water

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Poems for All the Annettes

Cover: Midway, poems by Kayla Czaga. Most of the cover is taken up by the sky at dusk. The bottom edge of a steep hill leads into a still body of water. Near the shoreline is a lit-up Ferris wheel surrounded by a few RVs and strings of colourful lights.

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Midway

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The Educated Imagination

One More Mountain by Deborah Ellis. This image is made of eight scenes on an orange background. First, 4 women in hijabs protest on a street. Second, 3 glasses sit on a tray next to a tea pot. Third, a white truck carries soldiers. Fourth, a person wearing a burqa sits under a tree. Fifth, a man holds a bunch of balloons. Sixth, a boy stands on a roof and watches a plane taking off. Seventh, 3 soldiers with guns sit in a teacup. Eighth, a boy with medium skin tone looks at a globe on a table.

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One More Mountain

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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems

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Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson

Cover: Lantern, poems by Sanna Wani. Above a cream-coloured background, a forest green border is stamped. Inside the border are three ginko leaves stamped in various directions, as though falling. The text appears in cursive lettering.

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Lantern

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De Niro's Game

A Place for Pauline by Anouk Mahiout. Illustrations by Marjolaine Perreten. A girl with light skin tone and short red hair wears a red dress. She lies on a long green cushion with eight small pillows and a white and orange cat curled up beside her. The girl, Pauline, has a book face down on her chest. Her arms are spread out on both sides as she looks up. Beside the cushion is a stack of books. Above her are two shelves with books and knickknacks, with a string of red flowers hanging between them.

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A Place for Pauline

Cover: A Horse at the Window by Spencer Gordon. A painting of a person with fire coming out of their head. They are wearing a black suit jacket. and holding a flaming flower.

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A Horse at the Window

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O Cidadan

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Endings

Cover: Keep: A Novel by Jenny Haysom. A white wall is covered in pieces of overlapping white paper in different sizes. Some lie flat, while others are lifted, casting shadows on the wall. The title, Keep, is written in a black cursive font across the middle of the cover, overlapping many of the pieces of paper, while some of the paper also covers parts of the letters. Jenny Haysom’s name appears at the bottom of the cover in a blocky grey sans serif font. Above that, “A Novel” is written in smaller black le

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Keep

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Up in the Tree

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The Bush Garden

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Sequence

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The Exiles' Gallery

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The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

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Me enoja / Angry Me

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Ana Historic

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Cover: Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson. The text appears in thick yellow brush strokes over a red background, with "poems" appearing in white. In the center, a wolf springs forward, its head tilted toward the reader with a somewhat feral smile.

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Ultra Blue

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Back in the Land of the Living

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The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel

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The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

The body of a black snake stretches across a pink sky. Its black scales are outlined in green. An opaque white circle like the moon is above the snake, but also covers part of the snake in translucent white. Below is the head of a grey animal with white whisps of hair on its head and green eyes. Its ears stand tall like a horse. Text: Paulette Jiles. Waterloo Express. Introduction by Sharon Thesen.

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Waterloo Express

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Noopiming

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Technology and Empire

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The Greats

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The City of Words

This image is in shades of black and white. Six women hang upside down by their knees from a set of monkey bars. They each wear the same uniform of white shorts with a dark stripe and buttons down the side and a white short-sleeved sweater with a thick dark stripe across the chest. Each woman dangles their arms toward the ground. They all have light skin tone and dark hair. Text: Dunk Tank. Kayla Czaga.

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Dunk Tank

Cover: The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2024: A Selection of the Shortlist. Amelia M. Glasser / Yuliya Ilchuk / Halyna Kruk / Jorie Graham / Ishion Hutinson / Ann Lauterbach / George McWhirter / Homero Aridjis. Edited by Albert F. Moritz. In the centre of the cover is a black and white image of a lush forrest.

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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2024

Cover: Trinity Street, poems, by Jen Currin. A photo of a park bench at night, lit up by a light source off-camera. The light also hits the bright green grass surrounding the bench, and a tree on the far left side. Even the trunk appears illuminated in green from the grass reflecting light. Trees and bushes to the right of the bench appear in the shadows. Far in the distance, city lights are just barely visible.

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Trinity Street

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Mud City

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The Future of Capitalism

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The Big Why

Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.

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The Wren

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Death Goes Better With Coca-Cola

Fly Away Home. Written by Betty Quan and illustrated by Akin Duzakin. A young girl and a woman with their backs to us hold hands and carry backpacks. The girl has medium-light skin tone and straight black hair. The woman has medium-light skin tone and black hair tied back in a ponytail. They each clutch a full bag their arms and look out across a hilly green field with a blue sky above. A group of people also carrying bags walk in the distance. Above them a flock of white birds fly through the sky.

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Fly Away Home

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Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person

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Testament

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The 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

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The Elsewhere Community

A black tree is against a yellow background. The tree has white fruit shaped like pears and black leaves. The silhouette of a girl and a chicken are in the tree sitting on a high branch. Text: How to Bee. Bren MacDibble.

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How to Bee

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When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

This image is in shades of black and white. A statue on a cliff looks out over the ruins of an old city. The statue resembles a man with short curly hair. It has one arm out and is has a draped cloak around it. The ruins of the city are mainly rubble and stone walls with window openings. The buildings are densely packed together. Text: Erín Moure. The Elements. (Nam:Loz).

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The Elements

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Pigeon

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Furious

In a green border is the title is at the top in English, “My First Words in Nahuat.” On the left in Nahuat, “Tay naja nitajtaketzji achtu tik Nawat”. On the right in Spanish, “Mis primeras palabras en nahuat.” The authors’ names, Jorge Argueta and El Aleph Sanchez, are below, with “Yujyultawawasul, Poems, Poemas.” In the centre are three children with medium-dark skin tone in colourful crowns. Behind them stand two men with red skin tone, blue beards and black brows. In the background is a village.

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Tay naja nitajtaketzki achtu tik Nawat / ‌Mis primeras palabras en nahuat / My First Words in Nahuat‌

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Second Words

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The Circle Game

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river woman

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Chameleon Hours

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The Breadwinner

Six wings overlap each other against a blue background with black waves. The first wing is white and grey. It is the largest and spreads across the cover. The second is the smallest. It is blue and light blue. The third is small as well, and is green. The fourth is mid-sized, and it is brown and black. The fifth is mid-sized, and it is grey with a black tip. The sixth wing is small and gold. Text: John Thompson. Stilt Jack. Introduction by Rob Winger.

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Stilt Jack

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Mermaids and Ikons

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Birding with Yeats

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Arrival

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The White Cat and the Monk

A woman with light skin tone holds a bow and arrow taught and ready for the release of the arrow. She aims the arrow toward a bullseye in the air above her. The background is red. Text: Moving Targets. Writing with Intent 1982-2004. Margaret Atwood. Introduction by Jeet Heer.

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Moving Targets